I have some post categorized under projects and have a link to that category from the main menu navigation. I want the link to have a url like this: http://www.example.com/projects. How can I achieve this for in WordPress?
Note that I already have my permalinks for blog posts set to: /%category%/%postname%/
If you already set that as permalinks, then you should be all set then.
I have that setting on one of my site and it works like what you mentioned.
Does these types of links work on your setup?
http://www.example.com/category/projects
http://www.example.com/projects
Delete all the categories from the trash and download the plugin No Category Base.
Then category pages will have link like this: http://example.com/projects and not http://example.com/category/projects